HOMELESS charity Brighter Futures has been given a Pounds 50,000 grant to help develop a new strategy to support vulnerable people - which could ultimately secure Pounds 10 million to finance the new initiative. Brighter Futures is leading a partnership of agencies including Stoke-on-Trent CAB, the city council and Arch in the project to assess how to improve and coordinate services for people with problems such as drug addiction, alcohol dependency, mental illness, and homelessness.
A MERCHANT City venue is playing host to a new stage production by Glasgow-based Stark Theatre. Today and tomorrow, A Dog Called Redemption, a play directed by Peter Lamb and the seventh production from Stark Theatre, will explore the themes of isolation, mental illness and homelessness.
ROUGH sleepers are being let down by a "systematic failure" to recognise the connection between mental illness and homelessness, according to research out today. A report by homelessness charity St Mungo's urged the Government to do more to break the link by improving mental health services for people sleeping on the streets.
A MERCHANT City venue is playing host to a new stage production by Glasgow-based Stark Theatre. Today and tomorrow, A Dog Called Redemption, a play directed by Peter Lamb and the seventh production from Stark Theatre, will explore the themes of isolation, mental illness and homelessness.
Mum Lisa Diallo has used her traumatic experiences of mental illness, homelessness and drug addiction for the subject of a book. Ms Diallo (35) suffers from mental health problems herself - and three of her four children are autistic and have Attention Deficit Disorder.
It cannot compete in terms of pay, its Ilkeston headquarters are basic rather than comfortable and most of its staff are under great pressure working with disadvantaged young people who have problems with drugs, homelessness, mental illness and sometimes all three. Even so, social enterprise P3 has a trophy cabinet in the foyer of its head office which boasts numerous awards bearing witness to how happy staff are to work for the social inclusion charity.
WOMEN from all walks of life descended on Glasgow's City Chambers as the 49th Eveming Times Scotswoman of the Year was crowned. Dr Mary Hepburn was presented with the award for her 30 years of work helping mothers-to-be with drug and alcohol addictions, HIV, mental illness, or experience of homelessness, domestic abuse or rape.
It's 10pm on Aberdeen's Union Street and George and Billy are working the street, just as they do every night, busking and chatting to the homeless people who sit begging in doorways. I'm a product of the oil city but I've fallen to the bottom rung of the ladder," says Billy, a former offshore worker, as he sketches out a depressing tale of selling his business to look after his dying mother, before his descent into mental illness, alcoholism and homelessness.
Social challenges such as homelessness, crime and mental illness are ones we are all familiar with and are keenly aware of the burden they put on public coffers. The cost of, for example, tracking repeat offenders through the legal system or maintaining health provision runs into the billions of pounds each year.
THE serenity of the early evening was shattered last night as The View at Battersea Power Station hosted the first performance of The Warrior Band. Created by The Warrior Programme and made up of ex-servicemen and people who have struggled with homelessness and mental illness, the band played with rock royalty as Dire Straits' John Illsley joined them on stage.
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